Faultline Online Reporter

Published 16th February 2017

Technicolor patents suit reeks of HEVC confusion, and a set top war

When Technicolor this week filed a patent infringement case against Samsung, it was made to look deliberately like this was an attack on Samsung’s largest volume businesses, phones and TV manufacture. To us this is really about set top boxes, getting royalties for codec patents and is about trying to keep Samsung at bay in a business where Technicolor has “doubled down”. Technicolor was faced with a huge decision 18 months ago, when it was clear that rival Pace had been snapped up by Arris, in a move we said added the kind of scale it would need to keep consumer electronics companies like Humax and Samsung out of the set top business. If Technicolor bought the Cisco set top…